Soup-spoon.



No. 680,648. Patented Aug. l3, 190i.

J. A. CRANOALL.

SOUP SPOON.

(Application filed Mar. 8, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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JESSE A. CRANDALL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO FRANCIS RAYMOND, OF KINGS COUNTY, NEN YORK.

SOUP-SPOON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,648, dated August 13, 1901.

Application filed March 8, 1901.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J nssn A. CRANDALL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soup-Spoons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a spoon of the ordinary construction provided with my attachment; Fig. 2, a vertical sectional view of the same, showing the manner in which the V guard attachment is detached; Fig. 3, a plan .view of the guard or cover detached; Fig. 4, a plan view of the bowl or spoon with the cover detached.

One object of this invention is to provide an extremely simple attachment for soup-spoons which will prevent the soup coming in contact with the beard or mustache and which shall be readily attachable and detachable, so that the spoon and the attachment may be readily and separately cleaned.

A further object is to so construct and attach the guard or cover to the spoon that the spoon may be used in the ordinary manner without the guard, so that if the latter be lost or broken the spoon is not thereby rendered useless.

Referring to the drawings by letters, a designates the bowl of an ordinary soup-spoon, and b represents the cover or guard, which is substantially the same shape as the bowl of the spoon and is fitted down over the same, its edge fitting within the edge of the spoonbowl and its convex side being upward. At one side the guard is cut away on a curved line, as at 0, so as to form an opening for the ingress and egress of the soup, said opening being of sufficient area to permit the user to readily empty the contents of the spoon into his mouth, but at the same time prevent his mustache coming in contact with the contents of the spoon. The guard or cover closes the spoon all around except at this opening, as shown.

To detachably connect the guard to the spoon, the guard is provided at each end with Serial No. 50,376. (No model.)

a tongue d, which enter openings formed in the respective ends of the spoon-bowl, one of the openings being near the juncture of the bowl with its handle and the other being at opening and slightly pry up the guard, one

or the other of the tongues being thereby forced out of its opening.

It will be observed that the guard is reversible, so that it may be turned around to bring the food-opening upon the opposite side of the spoon to accommodate a left-handed person. It Will be observed, further, that an essential feature lies in forming the open ings in the bowl in the longitudinal center of the lips of the user 'or scrape the bottom of the soup-plate in scooping up the food. It will be further seen that another essential feature consists in forming the opening at the point of the spoon-bowl in such relation to the point of the spoonthat is, a little below its upper edge'that the bevel of the spoon-bowl will assist in directing the for ward tongue of the cover into the opening. It will be noted, further, that by thus arranging the lock-tongues and openings at the opposite ends of the spoon-bowl and in longitudinal center thereof the elasticity both of the bowl and cover-plate will be utilized to lock the two parts together, it being therefore un necessary to make the cover-plate of metal made especially elastic for the purpose.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a spoon having an opening at each end of its bowl, in the longitudinal center of the bowl, the opening at the point of the bowl being located a little below the upper edge thereof, of a cover provided with an opening at one side and adapt ed to fit down over the spoon-bowl, and provided with a tongue at each end, one of said tongues being adapted to engage in the open ing at the end of the bowl near the handle and the other being adapted to be sprung into the opening at the point of the bowl, the interior bevel of the spoon-bowl serving to assist in guiding this latter tongue into its opening.

2. In combination, a spoon having an opening formed Within its bowl near the point thereof, a cover-plate adapted to fit down over the bowl and provided with an opening at one side and a tongue at its outer end adapted to spring into and out of the opening in the end of the bowl, and means for detachably locking the inner end of the cover-plate to the bowl Where the handle joins the same.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 16th day of June, 1900.

JESSE A. ORANDALL.

W'itnesses: RICHARD P. MoRLE, ROBERT F. RANDALL. 

